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: This 2023 review from Frontiers in Psychology critiques the confusion between being a subordinate and the actual act of "following." It argues for a "process" approach where followers are individuals influenced toward a shared goal.

: Published in Nature Human Behaviour , this study explores why people conform to rules based on social expectations and pro-social motives, even when there are no immediate external rewards. Why people follow rules | Nature Human Behaviour follow

: Available on ResearchGate , this work discusses "Implicit Followership Theories" (IFTs), which are the cognitive prototypes or mental images people have of what a follower should be. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science : This 2023 review from Frontiers in Psychology

: This paper analyzes why individuals relinquish autonomy to follow others. It concludes that followership evolved as a strategy to solve group cooperation and coordination problems. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science : This paper

: Published in ScienceDirect , this paper examines "follower-centric" leadership and how followers contribute to the leadership process from their own perspective.

: This 2024 paper from arXiv introduces a framework for teaching information retrieval models how to better follow complex human instructions rather than just matching keywords. Social and Behavioral Science

In AI, "following" refers to the ability of models to adhere to specific instructions.